Market research & signal discovery

Trade the mechanism, not the narrative.

Whalur hunts for repeatable, statistically significant market mechanisms — behaviors that produce positive expected value across many securities and market conditions — and turns them into ranked, explainable signals.

  • Every signal is scored by historical expected value — not win rate, hype, or gut feel.
  • Thousands of hypothesis variations tested against historical replays before anything goes live.
  • Only mechanisms that survive robustness testing across regimes, sectors, and volatility ever reach you.

Plans from $29.99/month. Whale Watch, Whale Moves and Markets are free to read.

What's inside

See the whales for free. Trade them with a plan.

Whale Watch, Whale Moves and Markets are open to everyone. A plan unlocks the research engine behind them — plans start at $29.99 a month.

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Whale Watch

Every morning, the three highest-conviction whale moves the monitor caught overnight — what moved, how big, and Whalur's verdict.

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Whale Moves

Every signal the live monitor detects is written up and published the second it fires, with the evidence behind it.

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Markets

The macro backdrop the research runs against — VIX regime, rates and the curve, the dollar, gold, oil and bitcoin.

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AI hypothesis generator

Tell the model what to hunt for — VIX spikes, gold shocks, news chatter, reversals on minute bars — and it drafts testable hypotheses for you.

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Backtests & rankings

Run any hypothesis across the whole universe and see expected value per trade, consistency and trade frequency — then the ranked table of what actually works.

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Paper-trading wallet

Arm a strategy and let it trade a paper portfolio on live signals, with real P&L tracked against the S&P — live trading is next.

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The problem

Most trading “edges” are opinions in a costume.

You've felt it: a setup that worked twice becomes a strategy, a pundit's conviction becomes your position, and a backtest tuned to one lucky year becomes your account's worst month.

Noise dressed as signal

News, chart patterns, and hot takes feel actionable, but few survive honest measurement. Trading them is paying for randomness.

Overfit backtests

A strategy optimized on one stock in one regime collapses the moment conditions change. Curve-fitting isn't research — it's rehearsal for a loss.

Win rate worship

A 70% win rate with ugly losers still bleeds money. The only number that compounds in your favor is expected value — and almost nobody measures it.

The solution

Whalur asks a better question.

Not “what stock should I buy?” but “what measurable market behavior is occurring right now, and what has history demonstrated is the highest-expected-value response?”

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Mechanism discovery

A hypothesis engine generates and evaluates thousands of parameterized strategy variations — order-flow continuation, exhaustion, liquidity imbalance, mean reversion, and more — against historical market replays.

Robustness before deployment

Candidate mechanisms must hold up across bull and bear markets, sectors, market caps, volatility regimes, and execution-cost assumptions. Whatever fails is discarded — before it costs anyone money.

Ranked, explainable signals

Live signals arrive with a confidence score, the historical EV of similar setups, and the reasoning behind them — so you always know why, not just what.

How it works

From raw market behavior to a signal you can trust.

  1. Observe

    Whalur continuously measures a curated research universe of ~60 representative stocks: relative volume, VWAP distance, liquidity, persistence, volatility, and dozens of other reusable features.

  2. Hypothesize & test

    The hypothesis engine runs each candidate mechanism through historical replays — long and short, multiple entries and exits, position-management variants — and measures expected value, not anecdotes.

  3. Stress

    Survivors are re-tested across market cycles, sectors, capitalizations, and cost assumptions. Only mechanisms that stay positive everywhere advance to live monitoring.

  4. Signal & learn

    Validated mechanisms are monitored in real time. Every alert is scored, explained, archived, and fed back into research — so the system gets sharper with every trade it observes.

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Built like research, not like a tip sheet

Statistical evidence over intuition. Always.

Whalur's guiding principles are non-negotiable: expected value over win rate, robustness over optimization, repeatability over isolated success, and universal mechanisms over ticker-specific folklore.

“Rather than asking what stock to buy, we ask what measurable behavior is happening right now — and what history says is the highest-EV response.”

— The Whalur research charter
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1,000s hypothesis variations evaluated per mechanism
~60 stocks in the initial research universe
100% of live signals archived for future research

Our promise: no signal ships until its mechanism has survived robustness testing — and every live signal is tracked against its historical expectations, in the open, inside your dashboard.

FAQ

Fair questions, straight answers.

Is Whalur a stock-picking service?

No. Whalur is a research platform that discovers and validates market mechanisms. When those mechanisms fire in live markets, you get ranked, explained signals — the evidence, not just a ticker.

What does “expected value over win rate” actually mean?

A strategy that wins 40% of the time can be highly profitable if winners outweigh losers. Whalur measures the average outcome per trade across many samples — the number that actually compounds — instead of chasing high win rates that hide fat losses.

Does Whalur trade for me?

The roadmap includes Alpaca integration for paper trading and automated execution with position sizing and risk controls. Execution always remains driven by validated research — never discretionary calls.

What does it cost?

Whalur is free while in research preview. Create an account, follow the research as it develops, and lock in early access before signal delivery launches.

Is this financial advice?

No. Whalur provides research and statistical measurements of market behavior. All trading involves risk, and you are responsible for your own decisions.

The daily email

Whale Watch: the day's top three, every morning.

One email a day. The three highest-conviction whale moves the monitor detected, what Whalur's call on each one is, and a link straight to the full entry, stop and target. Three moves and the calls behind them — nothing else.

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